The Conservative Party has announced, as part of its manifesto for the upcoming snap election, that it plans to create a new national network to replace the Internet as a means of allowing the government full control over what is said and done online.

It contains a pledge to, effectively, ban the Internet in favour of a Chinese-style walled garden system over which the UK government can exert complete control.

Starting July 1, the official Android and Apple App stores will no longer allow Chinese users to download the VPN apps that Chinese people rely upon in order to get around the Great Firewall of China, which censors information in China and surveils Chinese peoples' use of the net.

VPNs are banned in China, unless they register with the government and escrow their keys, enabling state surveillance and censorship of VPN users' internet access.

Starting July 1, the official Android and Apple App stores will no longer allow Chinese users to download the VPN apps that Chinese people rely upon in order to get around the Great Firewall of China, which censors information in China and surveils Chinese peoples' use of the net.

VPNs are banned in China, unless they register with the government and escrow their keys, enabling state surveillance and censorship of VPN users' internet access.

VPNs are banned in China, unless they register with the government and escrow their keys, enabling state surveillance.

I'm guessing the point of the story is not about how people go about getting a VPN but the fact that Android and Apple as a large software supplier operating in China are not complying with Chinese surveillance laws so have been forced to remove software.

Beijing has rejected President Obama's criticism of its plan to make tech companies put backdoors in their software and share their encryption keys if they want to operate in China.

Lennart Poettering, one of the lead maintainers of systemd, insisted the software is working as intended and declined to implement changes.
"I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here," he wrote.

Evan wrote:He's getting nearly as good Torvalds for stirring people up.

Linus is rude, but at least he takes good decisions regarding development. This guy from systemd seems more like the major open source developers with that god's syndrome, always denying any problem even when it's reproduced by a large number of users. I'm dealing with this recently when reporting bugs to LXQt developers; the first thing is denial, then being rude and finally just giving a fuck about everything, hahaha!